Library hold placed.
Still reading Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow by Jesse Stuart. Finished The Law of Superheroes, by James Dailey, J.D., and Ryan Davidson, J.D., which I recommend to anyone interested in the law or in superheroes, and 11,000 Years, a science fiction novel about time travel by Mark Roth-Whitworth, which I recommend to nobody. I only finished it because it’s my next book club’s book, and it is really poorly written. For example, one character is French and speaks with a French accent. The author handles this by (among other things) having her always use a “z” instead of an “s”, except when he forgets. I took French for five years from three different teachers. That’s not right. Also, if her accent were that strong, she would call a character named Winslow “Vinslow”. She doesn’t. And there’s so much more… The author had four beta readers. I’ll bet none speaks French.
Next up: The Women of Weird Tales: Stories by Everil Worrell, Eli Colter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and Greye La Spina and An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment, by Patricia Fara.
Someone actually went on my book blog and left a comment complaining that my post about The King of Elfland’s Daughter was not a review per se but a rant. I just deleted their blathering. Some people are just too stupid to breathe oxygen.
“Yes and so?” would have been my response.
I finally finished When the Tides Held the Moon by Vanessa Vida Kelley. It’s an M/M romance between a refugee from Puerto Rico and a captured Merman in Coney Island in the weeks before the Dreamland fire of 1911. The book is well researched and populated with great characters, but there’s a bit too much padding in the middle and I put it down for several weeks and read several other things instead. Still I enjoyed it and am glad I read it.
That’s the only Adrian Tchaikovsky that didn’t work for me. But it’s got a Hugo nom, so it’s obviously working for a lot of people.
I suspect a bit of experimenting by T - I was slow to get into it but persisted ands now engaged.
Thanks for this recommendation. I checked out both from the library and will begin a little two-book marathon tonight. I’m passingly familiar with the Smiley books but for whatever reason I never read them (with the exception of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which I read after seeing the movie version with Gary Oldman.)
Started Nightshade by Michael Connelly. Great read thus far.
Thanks for the tip. Have been re-reading Bosch lately as I have nothing new to excite me. Maybe this one will do it.
About halfway through Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove. This is like if the classic Universal monsters went for a jaunt in Murderbot’s ART. I’m having a good time with it.
I finished “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells for the third time. Apparently, every two years I get a hankering…
She just released a short story about ART, I will read it after “Artificial Condition”.
Also New thread: Hail Caesar! Tis August!
Still reading Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow by Jesse Stuart. Finished The Women of Weird Tales: Stories by Everil Worrell, Eli Colter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and Greye La Spina, of which the best was “Leonora” by Everil Worrell. Also finished An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment, by Patricia Fara, which was interesting.
Next up: The Chill, by Ross Macdonald and The Delany Sisters’ Book of Everyday Wisdom, by Sadie and Bessie Delaney with Amy Hill Hearth.